TO:                 SEAOSC Directors & SEAOC Delegates

                        cc: www.seaint.org/seaosc Web Page

 

FROM:           Brian L. Cochran, President

                        Don Gilbert, Administrator

 

DATE:            March 1, 2000

 

SUBJECT:   Minutes of Meeting 914 of the SEAOSC Board of Directors

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The attached meeting report is our understanding of the items discussed and conclusions reached during the Wednesday, March 1, 2000 meeting held at the SEAOSC offices in Whittier, CA.  Participants are requested to inform the recorder of any omissions and clarifications.

 

PARTICIPANTS:

Brian L. Cochran (BLC)                   - President/SEAOC Delegate

James A. Hill (JAH)                          - President-Elect/Steering/Seminar Cmtes.

Jack E. Bruce (JEB)                         -Vice Pres./Budget Cmte./SEAOC Delegate(1)

Daniel J. Novak (DJN)                      - Treasurer

James S. Lai (JSL)                           - Immed. Past President/SEAOC Delegate(1)

Shirin Ader                                         - Director(1)

Dirk Bondy (DB)                                - Director

Albert Chen (AC)                              - Director

Graeme Dick (GD)                           - Director

Saif Hussain (SH)                             - Director(1)

William Nelson (WN)                        - Director

Shafat Qazi (SQ)                               - Director

Fred Schott (FS)                               - Director

John G. Shipp (JGS)                        - SEAOC Past President(1)

Donald H. Gilbert (DHG)                  - Administrator

David Weiss (DW)                            - Legislative Cmte. (B11)

 

(1) By Reference (Not present at meeting)

Note: M/S/C means "Moved/Seconded/Carried"

 

ITEM   ACTION         COMMENT AND/OR QUESTIONS

1                                         Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by President BLC at 1:05 p.m.

 

2                                  Approval of Meeting Minutes:

                                   

Ř      M/S/C to approve the minutes of the Feb. 1 meeting of the Board of Directors as previously emailed.

                                               

3                                  Treasurer’s Report: The Treasurer’s Report for the month of February was presented and discussed.

 

Ř      M/S/C to receive the financial report for February 2000 and approve the payment of expenses for the month.

 

Ř      M/S/C to request SQ and DHG to edit the existing advertising policy to include advertising on the Web site for discussion at the April board meeting.

 

4                                  Committee Reports:

4A                               Executive Cmte. Items: None.

                                   

4B       JAH                 SEAOSC Seminars: Discussed the scheduled seminars including possibly having a light gauge steel macro seminar.  Also SH is shepharding a PD&D seminar in May on selected Blue Book topics.

 

4C                               Membership Report: DHG reported that membership totaled 1560 as of Feb. 7 compared to 1584 one year ago.

 

                                    Candidates for Membership: 32 candidates including 2 Member SE; 1 Member; 5 Associate, 0 Affiliate, 1 Industry Member; 0 Corresponding and 23 Student were presented.

 

Ř      M/S/C to approve the candidates presented for membership.

 

4D       DW                 Legislative Cmte. (B11): DW gave a verbal report and also distributed a written report at the meeting.

 

4E       JSL                 Awards Cmte. (C13): Report distributed in agenda packet.

 

5                                  SEAOC Business:

5A                               SEAOC Executive Cmte. Items: BLC reported that an Exec. Cmte. conference call will occur on March 17.  It was reported that the Seismic Design Manual Vol. 2 (260 pages) should be going to the publisher (ICBO) at the end of this month.  Vol. 3 should be out in June.

 

5B                               SEAOC Old Business:

Web Site Proposal: Discussed.

 

Ř      M/S/C to recommend to SEAOC that it contract directly with BQE Software for ISP services beyond those services that SEAOSC is offering for free to organizations that are hosted on the seaint.org Web site.

 

5C                               SEAOC New Business:

                                    1. NCEES Meeting re: State SE Exam: BLC briefed the board that a meeting will occur in Atlanta on March 5 regarding the NCEES SE exam.

 

6                                  Old Business:

6A                               Structural Engineering Organizations Study: Tabled until next meeting.

 

6B       BLC                SEAOC Awards: Not discussed but applications were published in the March newsletter.  In subsequent action, BLC will write a letter to member-firms encouraging them to apply.

 

7                                  New Business:

7A                               Other New Business:

            WN                  Disaster Emergency Cmte.: WN reported that he is updating the telephone tree for contacting cmte. members and that it will be tested sometime this month.  DHG, DLN, WN and Sandy Pringle are the principle contacts for OES.  WN also noted that members in the Tri-Counties are should be added to the phone tree list.

 

            BLC                Next Meeting: BLC stated that the next board meeting on April 5 will begin at 2:00 p.m. to discuss possible rearrangements of SEA organizations.  Joe Sutton, President of SEAONC and hopefully Ron Hamburger, President of SEAOC may be in attendance.

 

8                                  Consent Items & FYI: See agenda packet.

 

9                                  Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.

 

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